Reducing Adolescent Pregnancy (RAP) in the Era of COVID-19

  • P Project/Program

A Active

Key Information

Pregnancy is one of the main reasons adolescent girls do not return to school.With students out of school due to COVID-19, there has been an increase in sexual activity and teenage pregnancy, which puts girls at a higher risk of contracting an STD, leading to physical and mental health risks.

Lead Implementing Organization(s)

Location(s)

Sub-Saharan Africa

Kenya, Malawi

Activity URL

https://www.womenscampaigninternational.org/what-we-do/rap

Government Affiliation

Unknown

Years

2020 -

Partner(s)

Not applicable or unknown

Ministry Affiliation

N/A

Funder(s)

Not applicable or unknown

COVID-19 Response

New for COVID-19

Geographic Scope

Global / regional

Meets gender-transformative education criteria from the TES  

Unknown

Areas of Work Back to Top

Education areas

Attainment

  • Primary completion
  • Secondary completion

Other

  • Remote Learning

Other skills

  • Life skills/sexuality education
  • Rights/empowerment education
  • Social and emotional learning

Cross-cutting areas

  • Adolescent pregnancy/childbearing
  • COVID-19 Response
  • Early/child marriage
  • Empowerment
  • HIV and STIs
  • Social and gender norms and beliefs

Program participants

Target Audience(s)

Girls out of school, Youth

Age

15 - 24

School Enrolment Status

All out of school

School Level

  • Lower secondary
  • Upper secondary
  • Vocational

Other populations reached

Not applicable or unknown

Participants include

  • Adolescent mothers (pregnant or parenting)

Program Approaches Back to Top

Health and childcare services

  • HIV prevention
  • HIV treatment and care
  • Sexual and reproductive health services (including family planning)

Life skills education

  • Gender, rights and power
  • Sexual and reproductive health (including puberty education)

Women's empowerment programs

  • Empowerment training

Program Goals Back to Top

Education goals

  • Improved critical thinking
  • Improved social and emotional learning/skills and mindsets
  • Increased school completion (general)
  • Increased school enrolment (general)

Cross-cutting goals

  • Changed social norms
  • Improved critical consciousness
  • Improved sexual and reproductive health
  • Increased knowledge of HIV, puberty, and sexual and reproductive health
  • Reduced child marriage
  • Reduced STI/HIV/AIDS